Rust Jobs in the South East

Rust
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Rust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Rust over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 394 343
Rank change year-on-year +156 -51 +119
Permanent jobs citing Rust 76 5 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.78% 0.028% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.03% 0.098% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 34 4 47
10th Percentile £37,574 £43,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £45,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -36.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile - £52,188 £80,000
90th Percentile - £58,375 £100,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -3.03%

All Programming Languages
South East

Rust falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,511 5,105 5,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.87% 28.66% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 4,064 3,661
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Rust
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Rust as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Rust in the South East

Rust
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Rust in the South East.

Salary trend for Rust in the South East

Rust
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Rust in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Rust in the South East

Rust
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Rust within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire - 24 £60,000 - 84
Thames Valley +75 12 £110,000 +131.58% 179
Surrey +59 11 £75,000 - 48
Buckinghamshire - 10 - - 50
East Sussex - 9 - - 24
Kent - 6 £49,050 - 48
Isle of Wight - 6 £58,000 -
West Sussex - 4 £60,000 - 24
Middlesex - 4 - -
Oxfordshire +35 1 - - 36
Berkshire +27 1 £110,000 +131.58% 93
Rust
England

Rust
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.58%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 39 (51.32%) Azure
2 18 (23.68%) Amazon EKS
2 18 (23.68%) AWS
2 18 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Eclipse
1 5 (6.58%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (1.32%) CMake
2 1 (1.32%) Git
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.26%) Finance
3 4 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (1.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Lead
2 21 (27.63%) Software Team Leader
2 21 (27.63%) Team Leader
3 20 (26.32%) Software Engineer
4 18 (23.68%) Developer
4 18 (23.68%) Software Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Senior
6 10 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Junior
7 5 (6.58%) Junior Software Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Gen AI Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Gen AI Software Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.63%) HTML
2 19 (25.00%) Node.js
3 18 (23.68%) .NET
3 18 (23.68%) Pandas
4 5 (6.58%) CSS
4 5 (6.58%) JSP
4 5 (6.58%) Middleware
5 4 (5.26%) REST
6 1 (1.32%) Bazel
6 1 (1.32%) Flutter
6 1 (1.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Cyberattack
2 4 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.32%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.26%) Linux
2 18 (23.68%) Android
3 5 (6.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Agile
2 39 (51.32%) Containerisation
2 39 (51.32%) Line Management
3 38 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 33 (43.42%) Mathematics
5 32 (42.11%) CI/CD
6 31 (40.79%) Test Automation
7 27 (35.53%) Computer Science
8 23 (30.26%) OO
9 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (27.63%) Scrum
10 20 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (26.32%) Machine Learning
11 19 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (23.68%) Android Development
12 18 (23.68%) Design Patterns
12 18 (23.68%) Kanban
12 18 (23.68%) OWASP
12 18 (23.68%) Secure Coding
12 18 (23.68%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 70 (92.11%) Java
2 54 (71.05%) Python
3 42 (55.26%) C#
4 40 (52.63%) C++
5 34 (44.74%) JavaScript
6 21 (27.63%) SQL
7 19 (25.00%) Go
8 18 (23.68%) C
9 17 (22.37%) Ruby
10 16 (21.05%) Dart
10 16 (21.05%) MATLAB
10 16 (21.05%) PHP
10 16 (21.05%) R
10 16 (21.05%) TypeScript
11 5 (6.58%) Ada
12 4 (5.26%) Clojure
12 4 (5.26%) Elixir
12 4 (5.26%) Scala
13 1 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (42.11%) Degree
2 19 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 18 (23.68%) DV Cleared
4 17 (22.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (30.26%) Kubernetes
2 19 (25.00%) Terraform
3 18 (23.68%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Microsoft